Chelsea's House

About Chelsea's House

Chelsea's House is a sober living operator based in Lynn, Massachusetts, running twelve certified sober homes across Lynn, East Boston, Chelsea and Malden. The organization takes its name from Robert Hinckley, known across the Massachusetts recovery community as "Chelsea Bob," and every house in the network holds Level II certification from the Massachusetts Alliance for Sober Housing.

A Sober Living Operator Across Four North Shore Cities

Chelsea's House grew from a single house into a twelve-home network without leaving the cluster of communities just north of Boston. Lynn carries the largest share of the portfolio, and East Boston, Chelsea and Malden each host at least one house. That concentration means a resident moving between Chelsea's House properties keeps the same city services, the same MBTA lines and often the same outpatient providers.

Serving Lynn, East Boston and Chelsea

Twelve houses carry the Chelsea's House name:

• 1052 Saratoga Street, East Boston, for men.
• 150 Orient Avenue, East Boston, for women.
• 12 Baker Street, Lynn, for men.
• 16 Baker Street, Lynn, for men.
• 17 Franklin Street, Lynn, for women.
• 64 Broad Street, Lynn, for men.
• 15 Harwood Street, Lynn, for men.
• 585 Boston Street, Lynn, for women.
• 51-53 Webster Avenue, Chelsea, for men.
• 61 Summit Avenue, Chelsea, for men.
• 17 Louis Street, Chelsea, for men.
• 167 Washington Street, Malden, for men.

Two of the Lynn houses sit on Baker Street itself, a few doors apart, and the operator runs them as separate households rather than one large one.

Men's and Women's Sober Houses Kept Separate

Chelsea's House splits gender at the house level rather than mixing residents under one roof. Three of the twelve houses, Orient Avenue, Franklin Street and Boston Street, serve women only. The rest house men. Someone applying to the network is considered for whichever single-gender houses are open in the city they need, not for a shared building.

Level II Certification Across the Network

Every Chelsea's House residence carries Level II certification through the Massachusetts Alliance for Sober Housing, the state's NARR affiliate. That level describes peer-managed housing with structure built into daily life rather than clinical staff on site: a house meeting each week, three outside recovery meetings, twice-weekly random drug testing and a nightly curfew. Running that same standard across twelve addresses is a heavier commitment than certifying one house, and it means a resident transferring from Lynn to Chelsea lands in a house that operates under the identical rules.

One Contact for a Twelve-House Network

Admissions for every Chelsea's House address run through the same office rather than through twelve separate landlords. That matters most when a resident needs to move: a man who outgrows the structure at one Lynn house or wants a change of housemates can raise it with staff who already have his file, instead of starting over with a stranger.

Recovery Housing in Essex and Suffolk Counties

Lynn and Chelsea sit in Essex and Suffolk counties respectively, and both cities are dense, transit-served communities on Boston's MBTA commuter and bus network. East Boston and Malden add Suffolk and Middlesex county coverage. That footprint puts a Chelsea's House resident within a short ride of Boston's hospitals, courts and job centers no matter which of the four cities they land in, which is the practical reason the operator has grown by adding houses in the same corridor rather than spreading across the state.

Who Chelsea's House Sober Homes Are For

The network suits someone who has finished detox or residential treatment and needs a structured, single-gender household with a fixed set of rules rather than a flexible one. Anyone who needs medical supervision on site should look elsewhere. Because the operator runs twelve houses across four cities, a resident who needs a different city, a different set of housemates, or simply an open bed has more than one door to try under a name the local recovery community already knows.